Primatology lab @TXStateAnthro led by @jillpruetz Behavioral ecology, health & env. pressures in Senegal + Costa Rica. We run with sharp sticks, tweets ours.
San Marcos, TX
Joined December 2021
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Welcome to the Pruetz Lab Twitter Account! We are lab led by PI: Dr. Jill Pruetz at Texas State University. Give us a follow for all things primatology, anthropology, conservation, and longhorns.
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Finished my artwork for the #aaba2026 art symposium that I’ll be presenting!! It’s a showcase of various primates and their offspring 🥹
Definitely not just an excuse to draw a bunch of babies 🗣️
Great presentations from the Pruetz Lab at the Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists Meeting! Thanks for hosting UTRGV @txstanthro
Come meet the Pruetz Lab at the @ASPvoice conference in Chicago. Our grad students are talking about chimps, conservation, and care research.
@txstanthro #ASPChicago2025 #monkeybusiness
😍 updates from the field 😍 Masters student @lydiaklehman is collecting data at @camaquiri for her thesis on prehensile tail use #primatology
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The P.E.O. Scholar Awards are competitive, merit-based awards intended to recognize academic excellence by women in doctoral-level programs. #TXSTNews #TXSTStudentExperience
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Still catching up on good news from @PruetzLab this semester - @maiyahoko passed her Masters proposal defense with flying colors - she will research seed dispersal by monkeys in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 @camaquiri
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At 80 years old, Ian Whitehead earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from TXST, capping off a decades-long academic journey inspired by a life of global travel and curiosity.
To read the story, visit ow.ly/5zaf50VMiwG
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Congrats to @PruetzLab graduate student @lydiaklehman for successfully defending her Masters thesis research proposal today! 👏
PhD student Hannah Furchak presented at the @txst STEM Conference today about her self-made primatology education materials. Go Hannah! PANT HOOTS!!!
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A letter to all the incredible women in primatology, #InternationalWomensDay
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Reworked the little gorilla I had for my capstone project in undergrad so I could use it for my aaba poster, style change after 3 years goes crazy
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Thanks to the @UChicagoPress for featuring me on their blog! I talk about my new book & give some @txst shout outs (or pant hoots).
pressblog.uchicago.edu/2025/…
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Primatology PhD Candidate receives research grant from the Primate Society of Great Britian
Katie Gerstner, from the Pruetz Lab, received a small research grant to support her dissertation research,
ALT Photo is of Katie collecting data in the savanna for the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project.
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In this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience please give these @PruetzLab scientists a follow if you haven’t already: @KatieFGerstner @maiya_okohira @lydiaklehman
@MrsFurchak’s daughter, Hannah 😉 and Lace Lively - more to come!
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Just submitted this to the #AABA25 art engagement exhibition yahooooo I kind of want to make another drawing with a different species so leave suggestions what primates you’d want to see
